About April
April Lacey is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with eight years of clinical experience. She guides people through relationship challenges, trauma, mood concerns, and life transitions by building on strengths and practical skills.
Background and approach
April emphasizes a collaborative therapeutic relationship and aims to create an encouraging environment where clients can explore difficult feelings such as grief, anger, shame, or low self-esteem while developing strategies for coping and growth. Her background includes work in psychiatric settings, crisis lines, community mental health, and group practice, which has informed a flexible, integrative approach.
April blends Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, Mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing techniques to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. She focuses on realistic goal-setting, thoughtful reflection, and skill-building for concerns including parenting, career stress, bipolar and other mood disorders, ADHD, family problems, and intimacy-related issues.
April values genuineness, respect, and collaboration, meeting clients where they are and supporting them as they work toward clearer priorities and improved functioning. She encourages clients to take small, manageable steps and to recognize their resilience as part of the therapeutic process.
Evidence-Informed Approaches Adapted for Online Care
April frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaching practical skills to change them, which can be useful for mood concerns, anxiety, anger, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relational patterns influence feelings and behavior, helping clients address issues around trust, intimacy, abandonment, and family dynamics.Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. She works with clients to assess goals, preferences, and immediate needs, and adjusts techniques over time so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy with this practitioner is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access consistent care from home or work, support ongoing skill practice between sessions, and provide flexible ways to stay connected during busy or transitional periods.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English